| Edition |
[Rev. ed.] |
| Description |
1 online resource (i, 25 p.) |
| Note |
Title from title screen (viewed on Apr. 10, 2012). |
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"February 2012." |
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"This report was revised on March 9, 2012, to include omitted page 2 of the agency comment letter from the Department of Health and Human Services in appendix I, page 23." |
| File Type |
Text in PDF format. |
| Summary |
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is responsible for ensuring that nursing homes receiving federal funding meet federal quality standards. CMS contracts with state survey agencies to conduct periodic inspections of nursing homes using a CMS-developed survey process. Weaknesses in the survey process led CMS to develop and begin implementing the Quality Indicator Survey (QIS), a new electronic survey. CMS developed the QIS to achieve several objectives, including improving the efficiency, accuracy, and consistency of the survey process. CMS expects the QIS to be implemented nationally by 2018. We examined the extent to which CMS (1) evaluates whether progress is being made in meeting the objectives of the QIS and (2) monitors and facilitates states' implementation of the QIS. To do this, GAO reviewed relevant CMS documents, including CMS-commissioned studies of the QIS, policies, and guidance. GAO also interviewed officials from CMS's Central and all 10 Regional Offices as well as officials from a judgmental sample of nine state survey agencies. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Note |
"GAO-12-214." |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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System requirements: Adobe Acrobat reader. |
| Subject |
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.)
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Nursing homes -- Quality control -- Standards -- United States.
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.) |
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Nursing Homes -- standards -- United States. |
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Quality Assurance, Health Care -- United States. |
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Nursing Homes -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States. |
| Added Title |
Nursing home quality : Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should improve efforts to monitor implementation of the Quality Indicator Survey |
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CMS should improve efforts to monitor implementation of the Quality Indicator Survey |
| Running Title |
Nursing home quality assessment |
| Gpo Item No. |
0546-D (online) |
| Sudoc No. |
GA 1.13:GAO-12-214 |
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